I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
If I would have had the same opportunities when I was 22, there's a good chance I would have squandered them. I know my work wouldn't have been any good.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
The worst thing Spurs ever did was get rid of Keith Burkinshaw. They have never replaced him.
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Many of our choices have led to the predicaments we are presently complaining about.
Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
People make mistakes and poor decisions in life and sometimes deserve second chances.
We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.
We made too many wrong mistakes.
In two years, I spent all my money on cars, watches, boots, discos, restaurants, and friends who, in reality, were not friends at all. For a boy like me, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and without money, it was dangerous.
If generations past could get things so badly wrong, then we are forever vulnerable as well.
When we have money, we start making mistakes.
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]
Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.